Friday 16th October 2015

KS2 Health Day – Tuesday 20th October

As part of our KS2 Science project on healthy eating we are having a Health Day on Tuesday 20th October. The children have designed and planned a healthy salad and should have brought home a list of ingredients. Could you please support the children by providing their share of the ingredients, please also supply a healthy lunch to go in the cardboard lunchbox your child made; both for the Tuesday 20th October. There will be no school lunch provided for KS2 on this day. Another activity planned for the day is an exploration of movement and breathing presented by Laura Mawdsley. The theme of this will be ‘rainforests’ which links into our geography topic.

KS2 Fairtrade

In geography the children have been learning about Fairtrade and on Wednesday 21st October, Mrs Saunders from Kirkby Lonsdale Fairtrade, will be coming into school to talk to the children. She will also be selling Fairtrade products after school. These will consist mainly of Fairtrade biscuits and Fairtrade chocolate. As a concession to the children these will be reduced to 50p, could you please supply your child with some money with which they can support this worthwhile organisation.

Football Club

Please make sure your child’s PE kit and trainers are in school for the Morecambe Football Club sports session on Tuesday. Given our ever changing weather, please always ensure your child has tracksuit bottoms or similar, a warm top and a waterproof in school just in case!

Christmas Club

After half term Mrs Mather will be starting a Christmas Club. The club will run at lunchtimes on a Tuesday and we’ll be making Christmas crafts. The cost for 7 weeks is £7.50 which covers all materials. Please reply on Monday by completing the form at the end of the newsletter so that resources can be ordered. Many thanks.

Early Bird Morning Club & After School Club

Invoices for Early Morning and After School Club are included in the relevant Friday bags. All cheques should be made payable to Lancashire County Council please. Payments for both clubs can be added together. If you are using the Early Morning Club on an adhoc basis it would be appreciated if you would bring the payment of £1 per session with you. Thank you.

Mufti Day & Cake Sale On Thursday 22nd October (the last day of term) we will be having a non-school uniform day when children can come in their own clothes for a charge of £1 per child. The PFTA will hold a cake and second hand uniform sale after school. Any donations of cake and uniform will be greatly appreciated as will help setting up from 2.45pm and manning the stall on the day.

Dinner Money

With the half term fast approaching, could we ask that any outstanding money for school meals is settled by Monday 19th October to allow for banking. Any credits from this half term will be carried forward as usual.

Samaritan’s Purse

In your Friday bags you will find a leaflet about the Operation Christmas Child project which we are supporting again this year.   Please note that all shoeboxes must be in school ready for collection by Monday 9th November. Thank you in anticipation of you joining with us to bring hope to children and families in need.

Year Six Pupils

The deadline for secondary school applications is 31st October. If you haven’t already applied for a place you can find more information at the below website.

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/children-education-families/schools/apply-for-a-school-place/apply-for-a-secondary-school-place.aspx

Infant Cooking Classes

Infant cooking sessions will continue after the half term with fresh fruit flapjacks. As usual, the children will be cooking in pairs, on a rota basis, on Monday mornings starting Monday 2rd November. In this week’s bag you will find a letter from Mrs Mather with full details.

Tower Wood Lost Property We have a number of items in lost property following the Juniors trip to Tower Wood. If you are missing any items please come and collect them from the office. We also have some items missing which your child may have brought home by mistake – please could you check at home to make sure you haven’t got anyone else items, in particular a pair of regatta waterproofs and a dinosaur towel. If you find these at home and they aren’t yours please bring them into school. Many thanks.

Junior Residential

We plan to take all the junior children on a residential visit to Malham Youth Hostel from Monday 27th to Wednesday 29th June 2016. Please do reply as soon as possible so we can make the necessary arrangements. If you have returned your slip but haven’t paid the £20 deposit please do so asap to secure your child/rens place/s. Cheques made payable to Lancashire County Council please.

Head Lice

There appears to be an outbreak of head lice in school at present.  Please would all parents check their children and treat appropriately.  Various treatment methods are outlined on the NHS website www.nhs.uk/conditions/head-lice

Newspapers If anyone has any old newspapers they can spare please bring them into school for us to use during our art lessons. Many thanks.

PFTA Fundraising

The PFTA have set up an account with easy fundraising. Schools can raise amazing amounts of money through this scheme. It works by parents and family members using easyfundraising.org.uk as a first step to find the retailer they want to buy from online. When you visit a website to buy something via this page it will register your sale. Easy fundraising will receive a donation based on the value of your order which will be passed onto your chosen charity or school. All you need to do is create an account on www.easyfundraising.org.uk; log onto the website and set your cause to St Peters C E Primary School Leck. Use www.easyfundraising.org.uk as your search engine every time you want to purchase something online. You could set it as your home page so you don’t forget. The PFTA have provided some more information which is in your Friday bag.

PFTA Jumble Sale

The PFTA are holding a jumble sale on Saturday 14th November, 10am-12pm at Frazer Hall. A great opportunity for parents, grandparents and other family members to have a good clear out before Christmas! Please give your donations to Hayley Mason. We’ll need helpers on the day to set up and sell, donations of cake and volunteers to serve tea and coffee. Please encourage friends and family to come along and grab a bargain. Any suitable items left over from the jumble will be included in the bags to school collection which is on the 9th December. Jumble can include these items as long as they are in good condition:

Dates

This is the last newsletter for this half term – we hope you have a great break – see you when we are back on Monday 2nd November!